Unescape Python Strings From HTTP

Question

I\'ve got a string from an HTTP header, but it\'s been escaped.. what function can I use to unescape it?

myemail%40gmail.com -> myemail@gmail.com
         


        

Answer 1

I am pretty sure that urllib's unquote is the common way of doing this.

>>> import urllib
>>> urllib.unquote("myemail%40gmail.com")
'myemail@gmail.com'

There's also unquote_plus:

Like unquote(), but also replaces plus signs by spaces, as required for unquoting HTML form values.